Paul's Update - 09/27/07

Dear Friends:

Wednesday was therapy day. The Occupational Therapist had Paul work on bending over and squatting since he doesn't like doing that and needs to work on balance. She had him bend over while sitting on the edge of the exercise table. He had to lean over and take balls out of the milk crate and raise up to hand it to Dad (above Paul's head). She wants him to bend more and squat and go down on one knee. This will make him put one foot backwards in order to bend down. He doesn't like doing this. She spent the whole session working on this but it is really important for improvement in balance and bending!! Speech is at 9:30am. There is only two visits left (this one and next week). Paul didn't cooperate much with her. They tried to do the alphabet. She was able to get him to identify a spoon verbally. She showed him a picture of a cup and then a real cup. She put the cup and spoon on the table and told him to pick up the spoon and put it in the cup. He told her "no" but after a couple of minutes he did it anyway. He knew what she wanted ... he just didn't want to do it!! He is so stubborn sometimes!! She had him trace a square ... he didn't want to do this either but he finally did it! After therapy they went and had lunch in the cafeteria. After lunch they headed home. Dad had to go out and get Paul's medicines. Soon he will transfer Paul's prescriptions to the CVS closer to our home ... that will make it a little less driving for Dad. Paul has been really enjoying his new chair. Nobody else is able to sit in it except while he is in the bathroom!! He hasn't been able to raise the foot rest ... that is on his right side which is weaker and will take some practice.

Thursday morning Dad headed out to Social Security to finish taking care of the paperwork they need to transfer control of Paul's income to an account that we can use for his care. After he finished he took Paul to DMV to get a new walker's license. The old license had a terrible picture from back when Paul was still not very alert. He looks so much better now. Paul enjoyed getting out of the house (Dora probably did too!!). Dad had a few other errands to run and got a lot of things done throughout the day. After another delicious dinner that Ronda made we had bible study. We shared many of the blessings that we have. God has been so good to us! We know that your prayers have been an important part of Paul's recovery and we thank you for that! Friday Paul will have Occupational Therapy. It seems like our weeks go by so fast!!

Have a great weekend, Lynne & Carl